Rumi quotes - page 4

The idol of your self is the mother of all idols. To regard the self as easy to subdue is a mistake. (Rumi)
Love is the bridge between you and everything. View quote
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The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore. View quote
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Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself. View quote
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Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder. View quote
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We carry inside us the wonders we seek outside us. View quote
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The lower self does not want anyone to receive anything from anybody else, and if it is aware of something receiving a special boon, it seeks to destroy it. View quote
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Didn't I tell you? I am an ocean, you are a fish; do not go to the dry land, it is me, who is your comforting body of water. View quote
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Our caravan leader is the pride of the world, Mustafa [Muhammad]. View quote
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What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle. View quote
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When in Love, body, mind, heart and soul don't even exist. (Rumi)
I don't know where I am. At times I plunge to the bottom of the sea, at times, rise up like the Sun. At times, the universe is pregnant by me, at times I give birth to it. View quote
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Whenever you are alone, remind yourself that God has sent everyone else away so that there is only you and Him. View quote
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As you start to walk on the way, the way appears. View quote
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If all you can do is crawl, start crawling. View quote
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I died as a mineral and became a plant, I died as plant and rose to animal, I died as animal and I was Man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying? View quote
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There is no worse sickness for the soul, O you who are proud, than this pretense of perfection. View quote
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Why use bitter soup for healing when sweet water is everywhere? View quote
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Anyone in whom the troublemaking self has died, sun and cloud obey. If you wish to shine like day, burn up the night of self-existence. Dissolve in the Being who is everything. View quote
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Learn from Ali how to fight without your ego participating. God's lion did nothing that didn't originate from his deep center. View quote
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Whenever we manage to love without expectations, calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven. (Rumi)
As quoted in "Rumi and Self-Discovery" by Ibrahim Gamard, in Islamica Magazine Issue 15. View quote
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The Sufi is hanging on to Muhammad, like Abu Bakr. View quote
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They will ask you what you have produced. Say to them, except for Love, what else can a Lover produce? View quote
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We have a way from this visible world to the Unseen, For we are the companions of Religions Messenger. We have a way from the house to the garden, we are the neighbor of the cypress and jasmine. Every day we come to the garden and see a hundred blossoms. In order to scatter them among the lovers, we will our robes to overflowing. Behold our words! They are the fragrance of those roses - we are the rosebush of certainty's rose garden. View quote
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